László Lovász, former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, received the Abel Prize

Two pioneers of the theory of computation have won the 2021 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious honours in mathematics. Hungarian mathematician László Lovász and Israeli computer scientist Avi Wigderson will share the prize “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics” - announced by the Norwegian Academy of Science on 17 March. László Lovász is an emeritus professor of Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). Currently he is leading the research group DYNASNET at the Eötvös Lóránd Research Network - Rényi Institute, supported by a Synergy grant of the European Research Council. Read more